He won't have much time to celebrate his win or dwell on his mistakes.

"It's basically right back to (school)," the Yale freshman said. "As soon as I get back from this, I have like a day before my Spanish oral."

Nathan Chen, of the United States celebrates his gold medal win following the mens free skate at the figure skating's Grand Prix Final in Vancouver, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP) (Source: Jonathan Hayward)

Japan's Shoma Uno finished second with 275.10 points.

"It wasn't really a good performance today," Uno said through a translator. "I wish I could have done better."

"Two points is hard to come by and yet easy to lose," Hubbell said. "Certainly our goal stays the same tomorrow, just to make sure we're giving 100 per cent into the performance of this new program, to really make sure we don't get afraid of having something to lose. Because we don't."